Morocco: the MGPAP Continues to Face Challenges

The Public Administration’s Employees Mutual Support Body (MGPAP for its French acronym) is still grappling with problems that led the association of those involved in this body to write to the prime minister asking for an intervention to get it out of its current status.

According to press reports, the Moroccan Association of MGPAP’s adherents said that the situation inside it is “disturbing”, despite the issuance of a joint decision between the Finance and Labor Ministers that led to the dissolution of its apparatus, and the appointment of four temporary conductors in charge of its administrative affairs.

The concerns of those involved in MGPAP are mainly on its current financial situation, which the Ministry of Labor and Finance refused to reveal, according to what was stated in the letter sent by the Association to the Prime Minister, saying that this position is “completely unjustified.”

The people involved in the MGPAP accuse public officials of the two ministries of “obstructing the achievement of the principle of transparency and justice” by refusing to disclose the financial status of the body, as well as their refusal to hand over the final report of the Insurance and Social Reserve Supervision Authority, which was behind the decision to dissolve the governing bodies of MGPAP.

The association representing the adherents of the body said that the team, which was appointed by the Insurance and Social Reserve Supervision Authority, “unveiled several serious imbalances, most of which constituted had a criminal nature”.

The association also demanded that those involved in it should be referred to the judiciary in order to hold them accountable, and to arrange the sanctions stipulated in the law.

The Ministry of Labor and Professional Integration and the Ministry of Finance had taken a joint decision to dissolve the administrative council of the MGPAP, and to assign the task of running it to four conductors, after the imbalances registered in the era of Abdel-Mawla Abdel-Momani.

However, despite earning a positive response from trade unions, such procedure did not manage to solve the dire crisis of MGPAP.

The Association also warned of the existence of “hostile entities to the reform of MGPAP’s system”, considering that this reform requires the issuance of a draft decree outside the parliamentary sessions to bring the Mutual Collaboration Code into existence.

It also demanded the issuance of a law prohibiting the elected body from accumulating financial and administrative management within the mutual, in order to put an end to corruption within this body.

 

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